Job Title:  Verzió Program Officer

The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (Blinken OSA Archivum) at Central European University (CEU) based primarily in Budapest, but with teaching tasks in Vienna, Austria invites applications for the Digital Archivist position.

Blinken OSA Archivum is part of Central European University (www.ceu.edu), one of the most multinational graduate institutions in Europe, engaged primarily in the humanities and social sciences. The Archivum is a complex institution of memory that supports scholarship, is engaged in research, is the initiator of high visibility public programs, and manages the Archives and Evidentiary Practices specialization at the History and Legal Studies Departments at CEU. The Archivum is also an “archive of last resort”, the archive of (politically and otherwise) endangered collections. 

Blinken OSA Archivum hopes to attract a unique intellectual who is ready to experiment and to take calculated professional and intellectual challenges; who is passionate about new archival and library theories, technologies, trends in digital media, digital humanities, and open access; and who is highly knowledgeable about documentaries and documentary film-making.

Duties and Responsibilities

The task involves  

• working closely with the Festival director on all the Verzió programs including the annual festival’s film program, professional, educational, and other activities, and year-round programs;
• coordinating the work of the programming team and the preselection teams;
• publishing and managing the annual call for submissions;
• maintaining communication with distributors, sales agents, filmmakers, and negotiates the screening rights for the films selected for the festival program;
• maintaining partnership with film festivals, film schools, industry professionals, and festival partners such as embassies, cultural institutes, civil organizations and attends professional events;
• overseeing the work of the communication team of the festival;
• responsible for the editing and printing of the festival’s publications, and for the festival website and blog (www.verzio.org) ;
• responsible for managing database with the festival films’ credits and descriptions;
• responsible for the design and the implementation of the educational programs such as the university partnerships and the film critics workshop;
• supervising subtitling and copy production, the work of translators as well as that of selected interns;
• contributing to writing grant applications and preparing narrative reports;
• ensuring that the program of the previous festival is archived

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Arts or Humanities;
• basic knowledge of archival standards, best practices;
• excellent spoken and written English and Hungarian;
• advanced knowledge of MS office, Google applications and various video streaming platforms;
• proven interest in documentary films, knowledge of the documentary film fields;
• excellent communication skills in person and in writing 

What CEU Offers

We offer a competitive salary starting from a gross of 1 000 000 HUF/month as well as a dynamic and international academic environment. The initial contract is for 10 months with the possibility of renewal. 

How To Apply

Please submit a CV and a motivation letter with a focus on relevant professional experience.

CEU is strongly committed to the promotion of gender equality and equal opportunities within our institution. Previous training, work experience and/or engagement with matters of equality, diversity and inclusion at the organizational level will be an asset.

Central European University does not discriminate on the basis of—including, but not limited to—race, color, national and ethnic origin, religion, gender and sexual orientation in administering its educational policies, admissions policies, employment, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

About CEU

One of the world’s most international universities, a unique founding mission positions Central European University as both an acclaimed center for the study of economic, historical, social and political challenges, and a source of support for building open and democratic societies that respect human rights and human dignity. CEU is accredited in the United States and Austria, and offers English-language bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in the social sciences, the humanities, law, environmental sciences, management and public policy. CEU enrolls more than 1,400 students from over 100 countries, with faculty from over 50 countries.

In 2019, CEU relocated from Hungary to Austria as the Hungarian government revoked its ability to issue US-accredited degrees in the country. As a result, CEU offers all of its degree programs in Vienna, Austria; and retains a non-degree, research and civic engagement presence in Budapest, Hungary, through its CEU Democracy Institute, the Institute for Advanced Study, the CEU Summer University and The Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA), and its Hungarian language public educational programs and public lectures.

For more information, please visit https://www.ceu.edu/.